Building smarter, scalable AI agents with Azure Managed Redis
Azure Managed Redis continues to power the world’s most demanding, low-latency workloads—from caching and session management to powering the next generation of AI agents. At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we’re excited to announce several new capabilities designed to make Azure Managed Redis even more scalable, manageable, and AI-ready.
Bigger, faster, stronger: new enterprise-scale SKUs (generally available)
We are expanding our capacity portfolio with the general availability of Memory Optimized 150 and 250, Balanced 150 and 250, Compute Optimized 150 and 250 SKUs/, bringing higher throughput, lower latency, and greater memory capacity for your most demanding workloads.
Whether you’re running global gaming platforms, AI-powered personalization engines, or enterprise-scale caching tiers, these new SKUs offer the performance headroom to scale with confidence.
Redis as a knowledge base for AI Agents
Azure Managed Redis is now available as part of the Azure AI Foundry MCP tools catalog, allowing customers to use Redis as a knowledge store or memory store for AI agents.
This integration makes it simple to connect Redis to Foundry-based agents, enabling semantic searching, long term and short term memory, and faster reasoning for multi-agent applications—all running on trusted Azure infrastructure.
Scheduled Maintenance (public preview)
You can now configure maintenance windows for their Azure Managed Redis instances, giving you greater control and predictability for planned service updates.
This capability helps align maintenance with your own operational schedules—minimizing disruption and providing flexibility for mission-critical applications.
Terraform Provider for Azure Managed Redis
We’re making infrastructure automation even easier with a dedicated Terraform provider for Azure Managed Redis. This new provider enables you to declaratively create, manage, and configure AMR resources through code, improving consistency and streamlining CI/CD pipelines across environments.
Reserved Instances: now in 30+ Regions
Azure Managed Redis now supports Reserved Instances in over 30 regions, with more coming soon. Reserved pricing provides predictable costs and savings for long-term workloads.. Go to Azure Portal | Reservations | Add and search for ‘Azure Cache for Redis’. Azure Managed Redis SKUs like Balanced, Computer Optimized, Memory Optimized, and Flash Optimized, would show up as sub SKUs in the category. Reserved Instance is available for 35% discount with 1 year purchase and 55% discount with 3 year purchase.
Learn More & Get Started
Azure Managed Redis is redefining what’s possible for caching, data persistence, and agentic AI workloads.
Explore the latest demos, architecture examples, and tutorials from Ignite:
- Learn more about Azure Managed Redis
- Try Azure Managed Redis samples on GitHub
- Watch the Azure Managed Redis session at Ignite on-demand (BRK129)
- Explore Redis as a memory store for Microsoft Agent Framework
- Introducing the PublicNetworkAccess property to Azure Managed Redis | Microsoft Community Hub
Ready to build Internet-scale AI apps with Azure Managed Redis?
Start today at aka.ms/hol-amr.
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